- From: <jos.deroo.jd@belgium.agfa.com>
- Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 18:12:28 +0100
- To: " - *www-rdf-interest@w3c.org" <www-rdf-interest@w3c.org>
Pierre-Antoine CHAMPIN wrote: > McBride, Brian wrote: > > So I see two options. A resource can have multuple URI's in which > > case the ability to assign multiple URI's to the same reified > > statement is no problem. > > > > Option 2, resources can have only 1 URI, in which case there can be > > multiple resources which model an RDF statement, but they are all > > equivalent, as in DAML equivalentTo. > > I vote for option 2, definitely. > Statements (nor trees, nor HTML pages) are not resources : > reosurces are "conceptual mappings", which *denote* some (set of) entity. My mind is still open to learn about the Web ... There are URI's and there are RESOURCE's. A URI is an identification of a RESOURCE in a universal space (called URI-space). Of course we have to use a notation for that! If we use mathematical notation: u for URI r for RESOURCE It is an axiom that: u1 = u2 => r1 = r2 (just accept that) If we use machine notation: URI-reference representation for URI literal-or-xml representation for RESOURCE A RESOURCE can have multiple (0, 1 or more) such representations have to think now about anonymous RESOURCE's, proof-value RESOURCE's ... -- Jos De Roo
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